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Tyrone POWER
Gire TIERNEY
SON OF FURY
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GEORGE SANDERS
Virginia LCH
BRUCE-AUBERT
LOCKHART
ROBERT AIRSTRONG
H. 8. WASHER
Produced by Maurice Geraghty. Directed by Leonide Mogur, Original Screen Flax by Philip MacDonald and Herbert Biberman.
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ATOM BOMB! THE END OF THE ROAD THAT
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At 2.30; 5.00; 7.00 & 9.00. p.m. THE RECORD BREAKING PICTURE IN MOTION PICTURE HISTORY
"BATHING
BEAUTY
(IN TECHNICOLOUR). Starring RED SKELTON ESTHER WILLIAMS M-G-M's Most Spectacular
Water Carnivall.;
TOM NEAL BARBARA HALE MARC CRAMER MICHAEL ST. ANGEL LEONARD STRONG EXCHARD LOO
AYYE LUNCE ¦-
Beaded by GORDON PONOUN
ORIENTAL)
SHOWS: 2.80; 8.15; 7.15; 9.15 Showing Today and To-morrow DOROTHY LAMOUR ARTHUR de CORDOVA
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1946.
Expert In The Dock
Accused Scientist Who LEE THEATRE
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Knows His Stuff"
LONDON, MAR. 20.
THE ATOMIC ENERGY EXPERT, DR. ALAN MAY 34- YEAR-OLD LECTURER AT KING'S COLLEGE, LON- DON, WAS TO-DAY COMMITTED FOR TRIAL AT THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT AFTER HIS STREET SECOND APPEARANCE AT THE BOW MAGISTRATES COURT ON THE CHARGE OF COM- MUNICATING ATOMIC ENERGY SECRETS TO AN
UNKNOWN PERSON.
MAY PLEADED NOT GUILTY AND RESERVED HIS DE- FENCE. THE MAGISTRATE, MR. HAROLD MCKEN- NA, REFUSED BAIL ON THE GROUNDS THAT HE DID NOT THINK COULD TAKE THE RISK.
May.
dark-eyed and
be-
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At to-day's proceedings. Mr. J Anthony Hawke for the Direc: spectacled, Hatened intently to
for 8. Ko tor of Public Prosecutions and the proceedings, cuning that May was working with award in the arrow iron-railed t. 10 9 8 5 team of scientists in Canada dock, chin in land and a dark D. K 4 from January, 1943 to Septem- blue.overcoat pulled around him. 0.9708 ber, 1945, and had access to Sometime, he atured at the floor, Most of the secret reports and the latest de deep in thought. velopments in regard to atomic time ho gazed teadily at the energy. On his own admissionbaldish little magistrate. he had communicated in Canada
The court em. reminiscent The bidding: last year to a person, whose identity he refused to divulge, a of Dicken's day, was jammed North written report un atomic re-with speelators, many of whom Pass search. He nad alse given this were former students of the 38. unknown person specimens of man in the dock and me was
West opened the ten of koarks, and newly discovered material, which overheard to whisper: "That
man certainly knows his stuff."aummy won with the King to return was a highly important secret.
The defending solicitor, apply the seven of spades for trump inosse The first witness, Deputy Commander Lecnard Burt, Heading for bail, described May ns a West won with the King of spades and of the Special Branch of Scot-"Man of exemplary character." returned the nine of hearts, Bouth lund Yard, described two inter--Reuter.
in Paramount's romantic-comedy
"A MEDAL FOR BENNY"
With Frank McHugh and others.
- Nezt Attraction
HOSTAGES"
views with May carly this year,
in which May denied any ap
proaches had been inade to him in Canada on the knowledge of leakage of atomic secrets.
The second witness, Sir Wil liam Akers of Lhe Imperial | Chemical Industries, who super-) vised nuclear research in special secret Government or ganisation, said that May would i know of the latest developments in the use of uranium, but had not been working on the atomic bomb.
Strong Feeling
Appeal For Food Controls
4D.
l'ana
D, 10 5 2
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Eart
South
West
PARE
18.
Pas
PASS
40.
Pam
Pass
63.
Pas
Pas
Declarez drew trumps and led the ten of die- monds. Weat covored with the King lat diamonds, and dummy wou with tho Aco. South then ran the seat of his trumps and the remaining top heart, discarding a club from dummy. But East held on doggedly to wil bis dia- monds, and Bouth had to give up a club at the and to West's Quben,
winning with the Queen.
A brutal crime has taken place, fellow members of the homicida squad. See if you can spot it before you
read on.
A low diamonil, and nesse dummy's Yack. When that holds, South returns
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with love and kisses, 7 from Shirley Temple
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Atlantic City, Mar. 20.
Boutb was the criminal, and his Director-General Herbert Leh-
yesterday called upon 47 crime cousisted lo leading the ton of man governments in the U.N.R.RA. to diamonds! Granted that he had to innose resolute wartime food con-win the diamond finesse to make the truts, including the rationing of Slam, but that was still no reason to Correct play to to lead commodities in short supply. to lead the ton. meet the world's peacetime needs.
He told the delegates that "yo to his hand is the beart Ase to lead Admiralty After this witness had agreed that there was a strong feel-luntary measures alone, no matter the other low diamond. As it happens, West would bave to play his "King. that how encoretically they are pur ing"
after food har returns the low diamond to South's atomic energy secrets should not sued, are not enough. They can whereupon dummy takes the Aco and
be helpful but
Then dummy is put in with s be confined to one country, Mr. moved into civilian consumption tou, Gerald Gardiner, appearing for channels it is too late
lowing Bouth to discard the losing club, May, asked Sir Willum Akers; ture it for shipment top-trump to cash the diamond Queer, al-
Lehman said flatly "In February last year 'Russia was our gallant ally, was it not?"
among
c!entists
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"someone must ra hunery" adding that he could not "overstate my convic to tion that those who fought the partner and, with neitborside vulnerable,
to be considered you hald: enemy deserve
"The magistrate objected this suggestion and ruled it out, aftor Mr. Hawke for the Direc-first." tor of Public Prosecutions had asked why Russia had been in troduced at all, when he had mentioned
neither Russia, America or any other country.
Philip Noel-Baker, Britain's Minister of State, declared the success or failure of the U.N.T. R.A. would prove a test whether future international cooperation is Dussible.-Associated Press.
PENICILLIN LOSING ITS PUNCH
(By Howard W. Blakeslee)
Atlantic City, March 19. Penicillin is losing its punch so rapidly that it is predicted that this wonder drug may become almost completely
- useless in a few years for a number of most preval-
ent diseases.
The trouble is not in penicillin but in special strains of germs present in many diseases which are able to resist penicillin and which are spreading rapidly while their fellows are being destroyed by the drug.
of these
The prediction was made by disease. But, some Dr. Hans Molitor of Merck In-straina resist penicillin. stitute Therapeutic Research in
a report to the Federation of American Societies for experi- mental biology.
The trouble that penicillin faces is not new. It happens in most medical remedies. "But in penicillin the increase in germs that tolerate the drug seems to be very rapid.
Will Spread
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The bidding: Jacoby
Schooker Pauls
You Maler (7)
18.
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Score 100 por cent for two clubs, 50 per cout for three spades, 30 gar cent for two spades.
QUESTION
To-day you hold the same hand, and the bidding continues:
Jacoby Schenken. You Melor
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'KISS AND TELL'
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Pandit Nehru Speech
Singapore
In
This film, Shirley Temple's second since she grew up, is an amusing piece of nonsense. It moves swiftly, and as the plot becomes more and more com-
Singapore, March 20. plicated it gets progressively had Molitor did not say so but for funnier. If the director
"not for aggressionʼagal:1st. "Europe or the West .but ore time other physicians have put a moral at the end of his Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru yesterday called for Asistic Unity been discussing the possibility story it would have undoubtedly
for the freedom of every country in Asia.” of these resistant strains. In been What a tangled web we venereal disease because as they weave, when first we practise
Addressing a crowd of 75,009, If India aaoires to 'freedoms it is remain untouched they will to decoivo,"
the leader of the Congress Party, in a free world and when India is of hor energy apread until they are univer-
plays Shirley Temple, who
who came here to investiesto the free every ounce 2 Archer, sally scattered.
Corless
teen-ager conditions of Indians in Malays. shall be used for the freedom of who wants to grow
up to pointed out that for more than all subicet nations. This is true In some hospitals cures of
Molltor said that there were quickly, is going to be one of 1000 years India and China have of Indonesia Malays gonorrhea by penicillin have several ways in which to regard the more competen: young ac avoided conflict with one angther. other country in the world."--A#. dropped from the original al the loss of penicillin's effective tresses in Hollywood soon. But tnost 100 per cent to about 50
ness. One is to give overdoses, the great deilget. of this film will a strong arm and those Similar decreases great enough presumably, to lies in its supporting players; dom? Nehru said. per cent, are going on, in other diseases
resistant germs. Oven
they're all perfectly east, You've
Earlier Nehru but not so rapidly. In gonorr-might be fairly safe with peni-seen them, for the most part,
more than 50 strains of illin since it is not toxic.
before but germs are known. patient which one
hea
This
their names
* any
be
"Some day every Indian arm sociated Press.
will drht for Aalatic free-
had failed
"FRAGILE” MARKS RED HAT
are carry at the scheduled placing
morial to the Indian National once food. The memorial.
It makes no difference to the Another it is to combine save- probably unknown to you; they wreath at the spot where a me This is done occasionally now, knit little plot what I in. The
causes the ral other drugs with penicillin, do much to muku this tightly Aed by Subhas Chandra Bose. Cardinal Gilroy, Archbishop at
CATHAY
TO-DAY'S ATTRACTION.
Causes bad reactions some cases.
Recu-}
Hurn Altport, Mar, ze. Sydney and Australia's only. was later destroy cardinal, left here for home to
It la not too satisfactory, how younger players are all new, the head of the pro-Japanese Indian
is by the over since the combustion Frankel, Corless, boyfriendter National Army wo
really a discovery. He
Singapore labour organisations day in a British Overseas Air- rately portrays the awkward, laced wreathe" there and raised Ways Lancastrian Another way le to give chemi- gangling adolescent who can't Chinos and Indonesian flags walla Among hia luggage, was cal compounds that make germs move fer crashing Into the Indians wearing Indian National large flat box bearing five labels streets of Bizzapore, to day. They, ed the red bat which he received more sensitive to penicillin furniture, or the Learest tree-army uniforms word seen on the marked "Frague It contain-
from Pope. Plus at the Consi Such druge, Dr. Molitor sald, trunk, ipag der de
hitechappeenrant for example, increase this on-
awton, is uniformly pleasing Chandra Bose, and Invlian business fory held last month in Vatican
residential direction 1 full of aly Panded in the Congress tricolobeWhen he arrives this method is not easy! caune humour. Kiss and Tell Isahow
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